290 ECONOMICS OF FORESTRY. 



Jarrah, Karri, and Red Gum, lend special value. 

 The government merely controls the cutting by 

 issuing licenses under certain reservations, and 

 by collecting the revenue. 



In South Australia, which is mostly a forestless 

 plains country, a forest department was instituted 

 in 1876 for two purposes, namely, to plant and ad- 

 minister state forest reservations, and to grow trees 

 for free distribution. In 1890 there were about 

 215,000 acres planted and in reservations, and dur- 

 ing the fourteen years some 4,500,000 seedlings 

 had been distributed ; the expenses above receipts 

 having been $120,000 during the period. 



Cape Colony seems to be similarly situated, 

 mainly forestless, and hence merely interested in 

 tree planting, which is done in a small way by 

 four conservators, who are directly under the Min- 

 ister of the Colony. Here the government also 

 assists municipalities in covering their watersheds 

 by contributing half the expense. 



Even in the Soudan we note a beginning, a report 

 for a plan having lately been at last called for. 



The Germans in their African possessions have 

 also begun to introduce their painstaking forestry 

 methods with success. 



Two years ago Egypt also entered the ranks of 

 states with a forest policy, encouraging reforesta- 

 tion by relief of taxes on planted land. 



The country which, next to British India, can 

 claim to have the largest forest area under one 





